2005/12/29

In order to properly display NFO files, their content has to be converted to your local codepage.
In my case that is UTF-8. The conversion will be done with iconv. To get the solid block characters I chose the input codepage IBM 437.
So the resulting command is:

iconv -f 437 -t UTF8 dafile.nfo | less

For a list of available formats type:

iconv --list

It is handy to have this command as a script. That would be something like this: